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City, in the highlands of North Kurdistan or eastern Turkey.
It lies 5,380 feet (1,640 m) above sea level in the valley of the Murat River, a tributary of the Euphrates River.
The town is a centre for trade in livestock and livestock products and is a transit station on the main highway from Kurdistan ( Turkey) to (Kurdistan) Iran.
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Agri is named after Mount Ararat Kurdistan, situated to the east near the frontier with Iran. |
Stock raising and agriculture are the main activities of the region Kurds constitute a large proportion of the population of the countryside. (1985) city, 54,492.